Improvement in clothes-baskets



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEANDER OARMAN AND ALEXANDER O. OARMAN, OF MGOOYS STATION, OHIO.

IM PROVEM ENT IN CLOTHES-BASKETS.

Specification ibrming part ct' Letters Patent No. 107,446, datedSeptember 20, 1870.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, LEANDER GARMAN and ALEXANDER C. GARMAN, both ofMcCoys Station, in the county of Jefferson and State ot' Ohio, haveinvented a new article of manuf facture-viz., a Basket for Clothes,Src.; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description thereof, reference being h ad to the accompanyingdrawv part of our specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of ourbasket, as a new article of manufacture. Fig. 2 is a transverse andvertical section ot' the same. Fig. 3 is a top view of the same. Fig. 4is a top view of the basket when the lid is removed.

In the accompanying drawing, A represents the body of the basket.Brepresents its lid. The strips x and are made of any suitable wood, andofthe desired width and thickness, and then secured between the pieces mand n for body A, and between the pieces h and fi for the lid, arrangingthe strips x so that they will be at an oblique .ngle to the strips a2'.

The strips are then secured between the pieces h and t when for lid B,or between the pieces m and n when for the body A, by means ot rivets ornails. The strips are then wove so as to overlap and underlap eachother, and form a double thickness throughout each part of the basket.The strips w' and a," are finally secured between the anges or bands eand j' for the lid, and between the iianges e' andj" for the body, saidflanges or bands being so arranged with rela-tion to each other thatband c of the lid will tit over the band f of the body, thereby forminga bearing for the lid upon the body of the basket. The handles o aresecured to the band c of the body of the basket.

The advantage of constructing a basket as hereinbefore describedconsists in the double thickness of the strips when wove in the basket,and the combination of the strips with the center pieces, bands, andrivets, whereby strength and durability is obtained.

Having thus described the nature and construction ot our improvement,what we claim as of our invention is A new article of m anufacture-viz.,the hercinbefore described basket and its lid, constructed of stripsoverlapping and underlapping each other, and arranged at an obliqueangle to each other, and held together by center pieces, bands, andrivets, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

LEANDER GARMAN. ALEXANDER C. CARMAN. Witnesses:

M. O. J UNKIN, GEO. B. STILEs.

